Dreamweaver CS5 on Mac was fine for me...

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... but then a friend moved my system from my old laptop (which was having hardware glitches) to a slightly newer one - and now my Dreamweaver wants me to update. I'm ready to bite the bullet & spend my nonexixtant $$$ (cursing Adobe), but the Adobe sales page says I'm not compatable... does this mean I need to update to a new OS just so I can use programs I've depended on for years?!

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In fact, the question is plural, do you use many of the features present, or proposed, by CS5... like, use of server behavior, widgets, some kind of table layout, Spry library... etc...

today all this has disappeared from Dreamweaver, and is no longer available on the web... this doesn't mean that sites developed in this way are no longer functional... the proof is that your site still seems to work... at least for you... but what about on smartphones, what about updates... or what about updates in a year or two from now ?

so as @Nancy OShea recommends, you should consider migrating not only to a new, more contemporary work environment, but also to a major overhaul of your site, if it responds positively to the questions posed during the introduction of this comment.

in the meantime, if you wish to continue using CS5 from your new OS, consider using a virtual machine... https://www.virtualbox.org/ (it's totaly free) this way you can install your old operating system, then CS5...

depending on the version of the system you want to install, do a google on the subject... like "...install Lion on virtualbox..." and you find a step by step... (if not, come back here and ask us the question) Mac on Mac is not a problem, it's mostly Mac on Windows that is a legal problem

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